mirasdar
English
Etymology
From Hindi मिरासडर (mirāsḍar).
Noun
mirasdar (plural mirasdars)
- (historical) An aristocratic landowner in India.
- 1983, Tapan Raychaudhuri, The Cambridge Economic History of India: Volume 2, C.1751-c.1970:
- In many mirasdari areas, there were no hereditary village headmen and the mirasdars as a group performed their functions, such as collecting the land revenue.
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Anagrams
- ram raids, ram-raids, ramraids